Vice-President Joe Biden will be on the cover of the new Newsweek.
I'll buy it! I love that man.
The second guessing goes on as to whether President Obama will go along with General McChrystal's request to send more troops to Afghanistan.
I was encouraged to read the following article about Biden's input regarding the war. At least we can be assured that the President has been subject to a different point of view. And wow, does his point of view make sense.
UPDATE
Newsweek has the entire article up now: An Inconvenient Truth Teller
http://www.politico.com/...
SIREN -- VICE PRESIDENT BIDEN IN ON THE COVER OF THE NEWSWEEK CLOSING TONIGHT --"AN INCONVENIENT TRUTH TELLER: From health-care reform to Afghanistan, Joe Biden has bucked Obama--as only a good veep can," by Holly Bailey and Evan Thomas: "Joe Biden had a question. During a long Sunday meeting with President Obama and top national-security advisers on Sept. 13, the VP interjected, 'Can I just clarify a factual point? How much will we spend this year on Afghanistan?' Someone provided the figure: $65 billion. 'And how much will we spend on Pakistan?' Another figure was supplied: $2.25 billion. 'Well, by my calculations that's a 30-to-1 ratio in favor of Afghanistan. So I have a question. Al Qaeda is almost all in Pakistan, and Pakistan has nuclear weapons. And yet for every dollar we're spending in Pakistan, we're spending $30 in Afghanistan. Does that make strategic sense?' The White House Situation Room fell silent. But the questions had their desired effect: those gathered began rethinking their assumptions and began putting more thought into Pakistan as the key theater in the region.
"Senior military officials backing McChrystal have not given up hope that Obama will fully support the general, not Biden, and order tens of thousands more troops to Afghanistan. It is impossible to know with certainty where Obama will come out on this; the strategy meetings will go on until at least next week. But the president will have confidence that whatever he decides, he will have challenged all assumptions and thrashed out all views.
Richard Engel was asked by Charlie Rose if we should get out of Afghanistan. Engel said yes. He said it won't be easy, it won't be quick.
His special, tomorrow night, will hopefully be enlightening.
http://www.huffingtonpost.com/...
Engel's documentary airing Sunday night at 8 on MSNBC, Richard Engel: Tip of The Spear, comes on the eighth anniversary of the U.S. war in Afghanistan. It greatly expands on his Emmy-winning "NBC Nightly News" series on that embattled country, much in the news these days as President Obama ponders U.S. military strategy there.
I just saw this diary on the list of diary rescue, also about Afghanistan and President Obama's decision: It's worth the read.
Ed in Michigan